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Victoria Bluestone Quarries

AUSTRALIAN STONE
Sculpture / Public Art

Project: Entry statement at St Francis Xavier College, Beaconsfield Victoria.
Sculptor / designer: Anthony Russo, Orchard Design
Installation: Orchard Design
Stone source: Victorian Bluestone Quarries
Stone description: Sandblasted bluestone obelisks, honed 200 x 200mm bluestone tiles & blocks.

Capricorn Sandstone

AUSTRALIAN STONE
Best Civic Project

Project: Tannum Blue Architect: RPS
Group Designer: Mandy Rounsefell and Rob Guthrie Developer: EDQ (www.edq.qld.gov.au)
Stone Supply: Capricorn Sandstone
Quarries Stone Installer: Boyd’s Bay Landscaping (Head Contractor) / Natural Sandstone of Australia (Michael Wyatt)
Stone Description: Diamond sawn and sparrow pecked cladding, solid blocks curved and sparrow pecked, plus various feature walls throughout the estate, boulder retaining walls and seating blocks, hand carved features

Bamstone Bluestone

AUSTRALIAN STONE
Best Export Project

Project: Eden Gardens, Beirut Lebanon.
Architecture: LAB Architecture.
Construction: A & H Construction & Development Company and Avenue Ventures s.a.l.
Stone supply & processing: BAMSTONE
Description: over 5000 square metres of honed bluestone facade cladding, diamond sawn paving, honed window sills, soffits & reveals.

Wollombi Sandstone and Gosford Quarries

AUSTRALIAN STONE
Best Restoration Project

Architect: Linda Babic, Heritas Architecture, Newcastle NSW
Designer: John Colvin
Builder/developer: The Anglican Parish of Muswellbrook NSW
Stone Supplier: Wollombi Sandstone and Gosford Quarries
Installer: Albert Kraan trading as Wollombi Sandstone
Stone used: Cross: Wollombi sandstone, 915 x 610 x 152 mm, carved. Cornice and String Course indents: Acrogem, Donnybrook WA , 3.5 cubic metres, sawn and profiled.

JPW Architects National Workers Memorial

AUSTRALIAN STONE
Best Civic Project

Project: The National Workers Memorial, ACT
Architecture: JPW Architects
Designers: JPW Architects, ICS, TTW Engineers

Stone supplied: Austral Juperana granite (WA ) and Balmoral Green granite (SA), AustralAsian Granites; Darwin Brown granite (NT), Southpac; Natone granite (Tas), Melocco Stone; Bluestone (Vic), Bam Stone; Mugga Mugga porphyry (NSW), Boral; Grandee granite (NSW), Marblecraft; Bianca Mist marble (Qld), Cairns Marble & Granite; Mintaro Slate (SA), Mintaro.

Installed by: Rocksolid.